Meaningless Personality Quiz (pt. 10)

[Reposted from 5/25/05 – the original version messed up the blog and I didn’t have the connectivity to fix it while in Paris]

You scored as Existentialist. Existentialism
emphasizes human capability. There is no greater power interfering with
life and thus it is up to us to make things happen. Sometimes
considered a negative and depressing world view, your optimism towards
human accomplishment is immense. Mankind is condemned to be free and
must accept the responsibility.

5 Responses to Meaningless Personality Quiz (pt. 10)

Got me just right–cultural creative at the top, followed my postmodern, mix of existentialist with a dash (31% like you, Michael–scary, huh?) of fundamentalist, with 44% idealist. And the trick is I really couldn’t explain to you why it came out like that; that is, if you asked me, “What is your philisophy?” or something I couldn’t tell you.

In the context of this quiz, I assume an “idealist” is one who “posits the primacy of spirit, mind, or language over matter,” rather than one who “has high ideals.” See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idealism. So given your 69% materialist rating, I’m not surprised you didn’t score higher on the idealist scale. By the way, doesn’t your shockingly low 50% postmodernist score disqualify you from teaching at the college level?